I know a lot of people aren't even aware of the feature but I discovered text clippings about a year ago and have been using them happily.
However, as an icon collector I've encountered icons for much more than that: There's usually an icon for text clipping, generic clipping, sound clipping, and picture clipping. They also exist in CandyBar (which some of you will remember), indicating that those things do indeed exist in Macs, and those extra icons aren't just some Windows thing.
I can find plenty of articles on text clippings, but can anyone explain to me what generic, sound and picture clippings are? How do you create them? (Optional: Why would you make them?)
For those who don't know text clippings: Text clippings are a very old Mac feature where you can select text anywhere, then drag that selected text to Finder, where it creates a type of text file. It's readable but not editable, and doesn't open TextEdit or any other software to open it. A quick read in a minimal window. The clipping text file can then be dragged into, say, a text editor, to expand its contents there so you don't have to first open it and do copy-paste. It's easy for storing things like templates, but also to leave yourself quick notes inside folders to explain what some files are, why they're there, or what you were planning to do next. I've found this to be extremely valuable because I have so much stuff and work on various things that I often forget what I had in mind.
However, as an icon collector I've encountered icons for much more than that: There's usually an icon for text clipping, generic clipping, sound clipping, and picture clipping. They also exist in CandyBar (which some of you will remember), indicating that those things do indeed exist in Macs, and those extra icons aren't just some Windows thing.
I can find plenty of articles on text clippings, but can anyone explain to me what generic, sound and picture clippings are? How do you create them? (Optional: Why would you make them?)
For those who don't know text clippings: Text clippings are a very old Mac feature where you can select text anywhere, then drag that selected text to Finder, where it creates a type of text file. It's readable but not editable, and doesn't open TextEdit or any other software to open it. A quick read in a minimal window. The clipping text file can then be dragged into, say, a text editor, to expand its contents there so you don't have to first open it and do copy-paste. It's easy for storing things like templates, but also to leave yourself quick notes inside folders to explain what some files are, why they're there, or what you were planning to do next. I've found this to be extremely valuable because I have so much stuff and work on various things that I often forget what I had in mind.
